GENRES OR TEXT TYPES ● Prose

● Dictionary : usually refers to art and ○ Fiction

music ■ Short story
● Language : usually spoken or ■ Novella
written, any form of oral and written ■ Novel
communication with common ○ Non-fiction
observable patterns ■
○ Spoken
○ Written Factual
*ARE BOUND TOGETHER BY COMMON ● Content is purely informative
CHARACTERISTICS ● Procedure
○ How?
ORAL ○ process/series of steps
● Sunday sermons ● Explanation
● Telephone conversations ○ Why?
WRITTEN ○ State the reason of the
● Essays phenomenon
● Research papers ○ Answers why something is
relevant
*text with observable patterns help readers ○ Shows causes and effects
form generalizations about reading ● Exposition
materials ○ Shows details of different
sides of an issue
TYPES OF GENRES ○ Shows pros and cons of
Literary doing something
● Creatively written ● Recount
● Language combined with art ○ Recalling the details of an
● Poetry event
○ Lyric - with an ● Info report
accompaniment ○ Most basic info=introduction
■ Simple lyric to a topic
■ Song
■ Sonnet NARRATIVE AND EXPOSITORY TEXTS
■ Elegy (R. Vacca & J.A. Vacca, 2002)
■ Ode (Meyer & Hermosa, 2002)
○ Narrative - tell stories
■ Ballad Written Texts
■ Epic ● We talk of their purposes
■ Metrical tale ○ Tells a story
■ Metrical romance ○ Gives information
○ Dramatic
■ Dramatic monologue
■ Soliloquy
■ Character sketch
 Narrative Texts
STRUCTURE FUNCTION
- Tells stories
Structure Description Example Introduction Gives the subject of
the text
Initiating Problem Cinderella’s father
Event (what makes died, and she Body Provides the subtopics
the story begins to suffer pertaining to the
interesting) subject

Internal Effect She becomes sad Ending Brings the text

Response (reaction)

Attempt Action (taken Tried to be happy

HYPERTEXTS: NEW TYPE OF TEXT
to solve the as much as
problem) possible
Hypertext
Conse- (identifies if) Her first attempt - Refers to any language or text as it
quence Success or was destroyed is used and encoded in any
failure electronical device
Reaction Conclusion She lives happily - World Wide Web
ever after - Online reading is very different from
traditional reading

Expository Texts
TYPES SIMILAR CLUES
TO

Enumeration Info. report One, first, next,

finally, lastly, least
of all, most of all

Time order Recount First, second,

third, in the
beginning, in the
end, shortly after

Compare and Exposition On one hand, on

contrast the other hand,
similarly

Cause and Explanatio As a result,

effect n (why?) because

problem-soluti procedure As a result,

on because